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flacon

/ˈflækɒn/noun

flacon is a noun meaning “A small stoppered glass bottle, often used for keeping perfume” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-C-O-N, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flacon is flacons or flaçons.

What does flacon mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A small stoppered glass bottle, often used for keeping perfume.

    October 24, 1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, letter to G. W. Greene two glass flacons for the ink

noun

as flaçon
  1. 1

    Alternative form of flacon

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce flacon?

  • /ˈflækɒn/
  • /ˈflɑːkɒn/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of flacon

  • flacons plural
  • flaçons plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is flacon?

Flacon appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Flacon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense small bottle:

LanguageWords
GermanFlakon

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does flacon come from?

Borrowed from French flacon. Doublet of fiasco, flagon, and flask.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).